Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what draws you to working in a finance team?
- What do you know about our company, and what made you apply for this role?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- What experience do you have entering invoices or other financial data? How do you make sure your entries are accurate?
- Which spreadsheet functions do you use regularly? Walk us through how you would check a column of invoice totals against a supplier statement.
- Have you used accounting software such as QuickBooks or Xero? If not, tell us about a system you learned quickly.
- How would you handle a vendor invoice that does not match the purchase order amount?
- Describe how you keep documents and records organized so someone else could find them without asking you.
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time you caught a mistake, yours or someone else's, before it caused a problem. What tipped you off?
- Describe a period when you had repetitive work with tight deadlines. How did you stay accurate and motivated?
- How do you handle confidential information, such as salaries or bank details, in a shared office?
Problem-solving / case
- A supplier calls saying an invoice is 30 days overdue, but you cannot find it in the system. What steps do you take?
- You are preparing Friday's payment run and notice the same invoice appears twice under slightly different numbers. What do you do?
- Your manager is out for the week and a customer emails asking for a copy of an invoice plus an explanation of a credit on their account. How do you respond?
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